More nature in religion and philosophy

There is religious inspiration in the process of nature when we are not so much centered on the abstracting word-games of much of religion and philosophy. Abstractions, words, definitions need to relate more to natural objects. This can help open up the seasons, the moon, the stars, the universe, and most importantly biological evolution---the currents and rhythms of our real world. The pagans and neopagans do this well, the monotheistic religions not so well. As Gus Dizerega put it, pagans try to live in harmony with the world, rather than seeking salvation from it. Perhaps we would have fewer problems with despoiling our environment if we found actual religious inspiration in nature.

Bringing nature into religion comes about naturally when Godhood is seen as the zenith of the evolutionary continuum from the material to the supermaterial. Godhood remains in the natural world and does not denounce or detach us from the world, as do religions which see only a transcendent, non-material God, or a philosophical ontology that sees Being (God) as “time,” or as Nothing. Life needs to be sacralized, not debased, since it through life that we evolve to Godhood. Those who would reject the Spirit-Will from the body reject the vehicle by which the Spirit-Will inwardly activates life to Godhood, shaped by outward evolution. This is the religious and philosophical transvaluation---not destruction---of existing values which even Nietzsche seems to have undervalued.